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GIRL!  We had our baby girl on Saturday the 19th after being induced due to ruptured bag of waters.  Sweet baby girl just didn't want to leave her momma I guess.  She is a blessing beyond blessings.  Granted we had hopes for another boy, this little princess has been welcomed with open hearts, minds and arms.  We wouldn't change her for anything.

LS (Little Sister/La Señorita) is a very relaxed baby.  She was born to eat, and eat she does.  It is definitely a heartwarming experience to see what my body grew and continues to nourish successfully!  Currently la chiquita is napping, which isn't uncommon.  She will go 3-4 hours at a time and wake up to eat, hang out for a while and sleep some more.

BB(Big Brother) is doing great so far.  Definitely has his moments of wanting to be with her all the time...which sometimes causes us a bit of fear.  BB is almost 3.5 and he doesn't realize how strong he is.  He goes to lay on LS and is pretty forceful.  I'm sure we will get this worked out eventually.

JUST as I type that he goes over to the bouncy chair and pushes on it like a crazy man...oh BOYS!

40 weeks

Today we are 40 weeks.  Yup 40!  With Soon to be BB (big brother) we never made it THIS far.  He was born at 39 weeks and 3 days.  We are definitely ready for this baby to make his/her appearance.  BUT if it isn't time, it isn't time.

Today has been over all pretty good.  We had our appointment early this morning, 8:30...I know that is my early now and soon to change!  We came home and hung out.  BB and Papa went on a bike ride, I made a sun hat for the baby for the 4th of July.  Then we went to the grocery store for dinner supplies, our dinner by the way was YUMMY!

Skinny Shrimp Scampi...delicious!  And this comes from someone who does not care for tomatoes really at all.  I definitely recommend you check that recipe out.  And our dessert is cooking away in the oven...Red Velvet Brownies.  We will see how those turn out, I'm thinking a scoop of ice cream on top sounds scrumptious.

On the house front, we looked at a few more.  Nothing we were interested in, too small, too much yuck, now in the location we were hoping for.  So we decided to keep our eyes open, but have this baby first!

Did I mention we got maternity pictures taken at 38 weeks, we did it then because we REALLY didn't think we'd make it past that weekend and yet here we are!

It was really fun getting them take.  Now we just need this new baby to make the pictures complete!








Oh, and if I have to watch another Jake and the Neverland Pirates I may just check myself into the hospital until this baby comes.  I can't take all of the episodes BB wants to watch, day in and day out.  I suppose this is where we are and hopefully soon we have better news to report.

House

So we found a house we 'liked'...really it was the idea of the house we liked the most.  It was on almost 5 acres, had 2 barns and a shed.  The house needed work, and by work I mean drywalled, insulated, windows and flooring.  This house was OLD, I'm not talking as old as this, but close.  Built in 1894, the house was still in decent shape.  And was in our budget.

BUT our bid wasn't accepted and needless to say Papa is upset.  It will probably take him a few days to get over the heartbreak of losing this house.  Too bad he can't just listen to some old N*SYNC and get over it like I use to get over an ex-boyfriend.  It is a little heartbreaking to hear a 3 year old say he wants a house with a barn so he can have "a little horse and little cow and a pig"...and we can't give that too him.  YET!









And that was COMPLETELY off track.  Anyhow, so we lost that house.  And we can't find anywhere we WANT to live.  I guess we really need to sit down and talk it out.  Need to make lists, check them twice and find the place that is just right.  Oh House Santa PLEASE visit us!











And it seems as soon as one thing seems to fall through our minds flip to a completely different endeavor.  We are trying to decide what it is we want to do with our lives...now that we are here for good (in America) we need to kind of sort things out and figure out what our goal(s) in life are.  I told Papa while in Mexico we needed to sit down and make a list of things we would like to accomplish in the next 5 years.  We didn't do that, of course!  So now we are back and truly have no idea what to be doing, where we will be going, and how we are going to do any of that!  I guess first thing is first...

The baby needs to be born!  We are 6 days from our due date and still no baby.  In fact, our doctor said "I can't still push him around in there"...and..."he's still swimming".  NOT what I wanted to hear.  BUT there is hope!  This Saturday is the "Supermoon"!  And with it being so close to our due date I'm going to blame this baby's birthday on that...seeing as the pineapple I ate the other day did NOTHING for me.




After re-reading this post I sound a little freakish about lists.  And to be honest, I don't even know how to write a list and stick too it.   Honestly, packing for the hospital I made a list and felt STUPID writing down every little thing that was going into the bag.  It was like "DUH of course I need my toothbrush!"  So I guess I should look up "how to write an effective list" and learn to how to stick to them.  Maybe that will fill my time until the baby comes, we figure out what we want to do in life, and where we are going to live.

Off to study lists.